Blue Origin officially opens its new HQ and R&D center
Horn, West Texas; and Huntsville, Ala. It also plans to open a dedicated engine manufacturing facility in Alabama this March. 2020 must likewise see Blue Origin fly its first human passengers aboard New Shepard, its sub-orbital rocket, which is currently well along the path to human accreditation, and it’s seeking to next year to begin operating New Glenn, its orbital launch lorry.
< a class="crunchbase-link"href="https://crunchbase.com/person/jeff-bezos"target="_ blank "data-type="person"data-entity =”jeff-bezos”> Jeff Bezos- established space innovation company Blue Origin formally cut the ribbon to open its brand-new HQ and R&D facility, situated in Kent, Wash.– nearby to Amazon’s own head office. The new center covers 230,000 square feet and rests on a plot of land over 30 acres in size, and will eventually be the base of operations for around 1,500 Blue Origin staff members.
The brand-new HQ is called the O’Neill Building, named after Princeton University physicist Gerard O’Neill. O’Neill is known for his deal with NASA in the 1970s, developing potential future technology for sustained human presence in space– including the so-called O’Neill cylinders, which are big environments created to spin to replicate Earth’s gravity for long-term residents and for on-board agriculture. Bezos last year went over making O’Neill’s vision of the future a reality, detailing
how the habitats may be able to house as many as a million people on each station, to help develop a brand-new extension of humankind’s house in the world. In overall, Blue Origin uses more than 2,500 people, consisting of at its centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Van